Chenna Gaja

Name: Chenna Gaja
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Bengali
Ingredients: 4 cups Milk; 2 tbsp Lemon Juice; 2 tbsp Semolina; 1 cups Sugar; 0.25 tsp Cardamom Powder; 1 cups Ghee; 1 cups Water

Traditional Odisha sweet prepared from fresh kneaded cottage cheese fried until golden crisp and soaked in sugar syrup.

Total Time 45 mins

Difficulty Hard

Servings 4

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Ingredients

4 cups Milk Recipes →

2 tbsp Lemon Juice Recipes →

2 tbsp Semolina Recipes →

1 cups Sugar Recipes →

0.25 tsp Cardamom Powder Recipes →

1 cups Ghee Recipes →

1 cups Water Recipes →

Step-by-Step Instructions

Boil milk, curdle with lemon juice, drain through cheesecloth, and rinse to prepare fresh chenna.

Knead chenna with semolina for 8 minutes into a firm dough; flatten into a block and cut into rectangular sticks.

Boil sugar, water, and cardamom powder together to make a thick 1-string sugar syrup.

Deep-fry chenna rectangles in ghee over low flame for 18 minutes until deep golden brown and crisp.

Soak fried gajas in sugar syrup for 30 minutes before serving.

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